Installing Skinr 2.x

Last updated April 23, 2010

The new hotness on the block is Skinr 2.x, a totally new version of the Skinr module written by our friends at Gravitek Labs. It’s still in development (pre-alpha), but represents a huge leap forward in functionality and usability. Fusion does not require the 2.x version, but eventually will. As it stabilizes, you’ll probably want to upgrade to get access to all the new features, such as:

  • Apply skins in draggable modal window
  • Live preview of skins as you click to apply them
  • Packaged skin support – we’re creating a repository of skin sets here on Fusion Drupal Themes that you can download and drop into your sites/all/skins folder and instantly use in any theme (some are Fusion-specific, but many will work in any theme)
  • Better image previews of skins
  • Page level styles – apply a style to your page’s <body>, optionally only to certain pages based on path
  • Detailed documentation through Advanced Help

Skinr 2.x has a handful of dependencies which will take a few steps to install. We’ll go through them here.

Alternatively, grab a sandbox with Fusion and a free theme installed, which includes Skinr 2.x pre-configured and ready to go.

To install manually, you’ll need:

Here’s a handy Drush command all on one line if that’s your thing:

drush dl ctools jquery_update-6.x-2.x-dev jquery_ui dialog-6.x-1.x-dev skinr-6.x-2.x-dev

You’ll also need to download jQuery UI manually. Grab it from this link and unpack into your jquery_ui module, in a jquery.ui subdirectory.

Or via command line, navigate to your jquery_ui module directory and download:

wget http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.7.2.zip
unzip jquery-ui-1.7.2.zip
mv jquery-ui-1.7.2 jquery.ui

Then enable the Ctools, jQuery Update, jQuery UI, Dialog, Skinr, and Skinr UI modules. Here’s the Drush command:

drush en ctools jquery_update jquery_ui dialog skinr skinr_ui

Make sure to run database updates by visiting your site’s update.php if you are upgrading from a previous version of Skinr.

Don’t forget to set Skinr permissions if you’re not uid1 or using something like Admin Role to do this automatically.

You should also disable the Fusion block admin links, since now Skinr comes with its own.

Welcome to the future of Skinr! Please help us test this module and report any issues in the Skinr queue.